BRSL Videos

The Graduate Certificate in Technology Policy (GCTP) is a new certificate program at UC Berkeley hosted by the Goldman School of Public Policy and administered by the Berkeley Risk and Security Lab. The certificate introduces students to interdisciplinary perspectives on emerging technology and public policy issues, exposes students to the policymaking process, and provides training for how to become effective leaders in technology policy fields working with government, intergovernmental organizations, and the public sector. Students from any graduate program at UC Berkeley are eligible to pursue the certificate. This information session will give an overview of the certificate requirements and eligibility criteria, and give students the opportunity to ask questions about pursuing the certificate during their graduate career.

A webinar conversation, part of the BRSL spyware webinar series, between BRSL’s Dr. Elaine Korzak and Ingrid Dickinson, Security Policy Manager on the Threat Disruptions team at Meta. The webinar covered Meta’s approach to combatting surveillance-for-hire vendors and the private sector perspective on the spyware industry. The webinar also touched on the limitations that private sector companies face in mitigating spyware attacks and why a whole-of-society approach is needed to build appropriate governance for this market.

A round-table style discussion of Dr. Elaine Korzak’s new paper Managing Commercial Spyware Through Export Controls co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity. Dr. Korzak and BRSL Director Leah Walker moderated a discussion between guests James Shires, Co-Director of Virtual Routes and Managing Editor of Binding Hook; Andrew J. Grotto, research scholar and co-director, Program on Geopolitics, Technology, and Governance at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University; and Dr. Giacomo Persi Paoli, the Head of Programme Security and Technology at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR).

Panelists: Jon Metzler, Continuing Lecturer with Haas School of Business, Prof. Andrew Reddie, Faculty Director at the Berkeley Risk and Security Lab, moderated by Leah Walker, Executive Director, Berkeley Risk and Security Lab.

This webinar continues the conversation started in Jon Metzler and Andrew Reddie’s “The Double Power Law: How American Innovation Really Works.” Their War on the Rocks article frames U.S. innovation as emerging from systems: publicly funded basic research and venture‐backed commercialization. Jon, Andrew, and Leah discussed how leading research universities continue to serve as critical engines for early‐stage technology discovery, forming the foundation of a decentralized venture portfolio that gives rise to frontier technologies. The speakers, in reaction to the current university funding environment, also discussed the importance of institutional autonomy, funding breadth, and university–laboratory–industry linkages for preserving American competitiveness.